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The Recycling of Solid Wastes: Personal Values, Value Orientations, and Attitudes about Recycling as Antecedents of Recycling Behavior. Special Issue: Linking Theory to Policy

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McCarty, J. A., & Shrum, L. J. (1994). The recycling of solid wastes: Personal values, value orientations, and attitudes about recycling as antecedents of recycling behavior. Special issue: Linking theory to policy. Journal of Business Research, 30, 1, 53-62.
Using a structural modeling framework, this study investigated the relationships of personal values, value orientations, and attitudes about recycling with the frequency of recycl…

Recycling: Great Expectations and Garbage Outcomes. Special Issue: Household Refuse Analysis--Theory, Method, and Applications in Social Science

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McGuire, R. H. (1984). Recycling: Great expectations and garbage outcomes. Special Issue: Household refuse analysis--theory, method, and applications in social science. American Behavioral Scientist, 28, 1, 93-114.
Studied what factors would be most effective in motivating different socioeconomic groups to change their discard behaviors and participate in recycling programs by analyzing news…

Energy Conservation and Public Policy: If it's Such a Good Idea, Why Don't we Do More of it?

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Morell, D. (1981). Energy conservation and public policy: If it's such a good idea, why don't we do more of it?. Journal of Social Issues, 37, 2, 8-30.
Examines the reasons for the gap between an ineffective energy conservation strategy and the realities of American public policy from social and political perspectives. The discus…

The Social Impacts of Soft and Hard Energy Systems: The Lovins' Claims as a Social Science Challenge

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Morrison, D. E. & Lodwick, D. G. (1981). The social impacts of soft and hard energy systems: The Lovins' claims as a social science challenge. Annual Review of Energy, 6, 357-378.

A Decade of Residential Energy Research: Some New Directions and Some Spectulations about the Future

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Morrison, B. M. (1987). A decade of residential energy research: Some new directions and some spectulations about the future. Energy Efficiency: Perspectives on Individual Behavior, 185-206.

Energy Inputs and Household Behaviour in France

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Monnier, E. (1983). Energy inputs and household behaviour in France. Journal of Economic Psychology, 4, (1-2), 197-207.
Determined the relations between contemporary life-styles in France and the total consumption of energy by considering both the energy directly consumed within the home and that w…

An Activist's Perspective: The Inner Nature of the Environmental Crisis

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Myers, R. J. (1990). An activist’s perspective: The inner nature of the environmental crisis. Quadrant, 23, 2, 39-55.
Argues that humanity's inability to find inner harmony is reflected in its inability to live in harmony with nature. Jung (1931) points to the connection between the inner and out…

Toward a Theory of Conversion Behavior

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Moscovici, S. (1980). Toward a theory of conversion behavior.. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 13, 209-239.

Personal Values and Commitment to Energy Conservation

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Neuman, K. (1986). Personal values and commitment to energy conservation. Environment and Behavior, 18, 1, 53-74.
Examined the role values play in people's commitment to energy conservation, using data from 376 households in southern California. An adult member (aged 18+ yrs) of each househol…

Impact of Education, Age, Newspapers, and Television on Environmental Knowledge, Concerns, and Behaviors

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Ostman, R. E., & Parker, J. L. (1987). Impact of education, age, newspapers, and television on environmental knowledge, concerns, and behaviors. Journal of Environmental Education, 19, 1, 3-9.
Investigated the connections between environmental knowledge, concerns, and behaviors, by conducting a telephone survey of 336 residents of Ithaca, New York. Respondents' educatio…
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